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More on the Butter Shortage in Japan
How bad is Japan's butter shortage? Here's some more photographic evidence: Yongfook, a web designer based in Tokyo, took this photo in a supermarket where a block of a butter blend now costs about $7. So for $14 you could get a full only-butter block.
Previously
Japan Is Running Out of Butter
Unbelieveable! This Is Not Butter!